{"id":6975,"date":"2023-07-08T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2023-07-07T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:16:24","slug":"pittsburgh-native-with-a-kidney-transplant-competes-on-survivor-i-never-thought-that-could-be-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/07\/08\/pittsburgh-native-with-a-kidney-transplant-competes-on-survivor-i-never-thought-that-could-be-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh native with a kidney transplant competes on &#8216;Survivor&#8217;: \u2018I never thought that could be me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6975\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Hanna Webster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Wilder never expected to spend weeks surviving in the wild on national television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was born with Prune Belly syndrome, a rare genetic condition in which some internal organs and the abdominal muscles don\u2019t fully develop. He frequented Pittsburgh doctor\u2019s offices and hospitals throughout his childhood and was put on a strict, low-fat diet of healthy fruits and vegetables (a kid\u2019s favorite) to protect his kidneys.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/health\/2023\/07\/02\/survivor-tv-josh-wilder\/stories\/202307020028\">Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6975\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Hanna Webster Josh Wilder never expected to spend weeks surviving in the wild on national television. He was born with Prune Belly syndrome, a rare genetic condition in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/07\/08\/pittsburgh-native-with-a-kidney-transplant-competes-on-survivor-i-never-thought-that-could-be-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pittsburgh native with a kidney transplant competes on &#8216;Survivor&#8217;: \u2018I never thought that could be me\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[646],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1308","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}